The Mindset Advantage Podcast

006 Jennifer Shahade – The Mindset Advantage Podcast

Jennifer Shahade is a well-known chessmaster, author & poker player who first learned poker from her brother Greg "curtains", also a chess/poker pro. After studying regular Chinese poker, Jennifer jumped into Open Face Chinese just as it began to exp ... read morelode in the poker community. Her interest in the game seemed to grow in conjunction with the popularity of the game and she has continued to study and play the game for high stakes both live and on mobile apps.
In 2007, she placed 17th in the WSOP Ladies Event and followed this up with placing 33rd in the same event in 2008. Since then Jennifer has made a push to promote women in poker. She is part of the Poker Stars Women initiative, writing articles and conducting interviews for PokerStarsWomen.com. She also played in Ladies Events at PCA in the Bahamas, the EPT Grand Final in Madrid and EPT London, having won packages on Poker Stars. Jennifer is a host of Women’s Poker Hour, a weekly radio show affiliated with Woman Poker Player Magazine. Guests have included Vanessa Rousso, Maria Ho, Daniel Negreanu, Amanda Musumeci, Lauren Kling and Melanie Weisner.
Jennifer is a two-time American Women’s Chess Champion and Women’s Grandmaster. Her first book, Chess Bitch: Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport intertwined her own story with that of great women chess champions past and present. Shahade also contributed in-depth chess annotations to Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess. Jennifer’s latest book project, Play Like a Girl! Tactics by 9 Queens is the first book with combinations that are all executed by female chess champions.
Jennifer is the Mind Sports Ambassador for PokerStars and a Commentator & Editor at uschess.org. She makes regular stops on the live MTT circuit.
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